Non-free media information and use rationale

Profile pictures

Profile pictures when indicated on this website are to illustrate the person concerned. Where the person has died, therefore it would be impossible to obtain a free picture. Profile pictures is purely for use in the article to illustrate the person concerned. The image used on the profiles is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person.
It is believed that the use of this image, if less than 70 years old may qualify as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image's elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Aside from the claim that these files qualifies for use without permission under fair use, these files are also available under a license that permits educational, personal, or otherwise non-commercial use.

Non-free promotional

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion. It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question; where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it; on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA; qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license. Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.

Pictures of deceased persons, in articles about that person, provided that ever obtaining a free close substitute is not reasonably likely. Note that if the image is from a press or photo agency (e.g., AP, Corbis or Getty Images) and is not itself the subject of critical commentary it is assumed automatically to fail "respect for commercial opportunity".

Non-free content

There is no automatic entitlement to use non-free content in an article or elsewhere on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA. Articles and other Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA pages may, in accordance with the guideline, use brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author (as described by the citation guideline), and specifically indicated as direct quotations via quotation marks,

, {{Quote}}, or a similar method. Other non-free content—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content license—may be used on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA.
No free equivalent. Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose.
Respect for commercial opportunities.
Non-free content is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted material.
Minimal usage:
Minimal number of items. Multiple items of non-free content are not used if one item can convey equivalent significant information.
Minimal extent of use. An entire work is not used if a portion will suffice. Low - rather than high-resolution/fidelity/bit rate is used (especially where the original could be used for deliberate copyright infringement).
Previous publication.
Non-free content must be a work which has been published or publicly displayed outside Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA by (or with permission from) the copyright holder, or a derivative of such a work created by a Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA editor.
Content. Non-free content meets general Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA content standards and is encyclopedic.
One-article minimum. Non-free content is used in at least one article.
Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.
Identification of the source of the original copyrighted material, supplemented, where possible, with information about the artist, publisher and copyright holder, and year of copyright; this is to help determine the material's potential market value.
A copyright tag that indicates which Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA policy provision is claimed to permit the use.

Publicity photos

Publicity photos, distributed as part of press kits by celebrities, corporations, candidates for political office, and others, may be eligible for use on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA under the doctrine of fair use. These images are most often photographs of people, products, or events. As with all images uploaded to Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA, the source of the photo must be identified on the image description page, and copyright information, when supplied with the photo, must be included. Since such photos are distributed for reuse by the media, there may be an implicit license for their use in discussing the subject that is being promoted. This assumption of an implicit license may or may not include for-profit commercial activity, however. Because Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA no longer uses restrictive licenses, their usage on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA must fall under normal Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA fair use policy restrictions. If it is possible to replace the publicity image with a new, free, image of similar value to the reader then the free image must be used in preference to the restricted and copyrighted publicity photograph. Note that the above only applies to photos that are explicitly distributed for publicity purposes, and does not apply to most photographs of celebrities. For example, a wire service photo of a celebrity or a film still from the site for a movie cannot automatically be presumed to be a publicity photo distributed as part of a press kit. Publicity photos come from a very narrow range of sources, and are made available for distribution by promotional agencies, whereas many images that may appear promotional in nature are intended for commercial use by the image's copyright holder. Most photos that are found on the Internet are not publicity photos. Publicity photos found on the Internet typically have the following characteristics: They are found in a section of a web site called "media kit", "press kit", "press", or something similar The images are available in high-resolution TIFF versions (upload a low-resolution JPEG version to Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA though) There is text on the site asking that the photographer be credited and/or there is licence text permitting reproduction for certain purposes (usually using them to sell products is prohibited). If you have personally contacted an official promotional agent, modelling agency, or talent agency and have received written support for the use of a promotional image on Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA, please additionally add {{Withpermission}} to the image's description page, along with the relevant correspondence. Use of such images on the non-profit Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA, for encyclopedic purposes, is highly unlikely to be contested. Commercial reusers of Aberdeen F.C. | Family/DNA content should consider whether their use of such photos qualifies as fair use, and whether their use infringes on the subject's publicity rights.

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